Who was your team growing up through HS and College?

[RockChalk]

As youngsters we all had our favorites we followed. Who did you follow?

I loved watching Dean Smith, Billy Tubbs, Al McGuire, Jud was always a good follow as well.

 

[FinnGopher]

Gotta confess I loved the John Wooden coached UCLA Bruins. I liked Al McQuires Marquette Warriors. The early years of Duke success were fun and that Glen Rice Michigan team had me hopping. And, I liked those Hoosier. Fundamentally sound basketball is a beautiful thing to behold.

 

[GopherGuy82]

North Carolina. Carter, Wallace, Stackhouse, Jamison.

 

[LongLiveMilesTarver]

UNLV

 

[BleedGopher]

The Gophers, anyone?

Yes, the Gophers for me.

After them, I loved the Tark UNLV teams, enjoyed BJ Armstrong/Roy Marble combo, Big East 1980's ball, loved Majerus on the sidelines and always wanted him here (RIP), loved watching the Badgers suck for a few decades, and the Fab 5 was fun.

Go Gophers!!

 

[WindyCityGopher]

I fell in love with Georgetown when Ewing went there in 1981-82. I saw a documentary on PBS about him when he was in high school in Boston, and realized how dominant he was. The Hoya love was part of my overall infatuation with Big East basketball and Big Monday in the early/mid 80s. Couldn't get enough of those teams. But I grew up in Big 10 country and always loved hoops in the conference, and caught the wave of Clem's first success at the U when I was a student season ticket holder. Haven't stopped loving the Gophers since.

 

[balds]

Besides the Gophers, I always loved Louisville as a kid. Especially the early 80's. Lancaster Gordon, Scooter and Rodney McCray, Billy Thompson, and a coach named Denny Crum? Tough to get cooler than that.

 

[LongLiveMilesTarver]

I really enjoyed the Lawrence moten John Wallace cuse teams, the Tommy penders Texas teams, and inexplicably LSU with Randy Livingston and Ronnie Henderson.

 

[Dave H]

The Gophers by a long shot...then it kind of depended. I loved watching Temple and pretty much the entire ACC Tourny.

 

[stemar]

In addition to the Gophers it was Georgia Tech from 1983 onward.

 

[MaxyJR1]

I had student season tickets my freshman year for the final four run in 1996-97. Unbelievable atmosphere. Also loved the great 8 team.

I liked Michigan as a kid with Glenn Rice and then the Fab Five.

 

[Outsider]

After the Gophers, it was MJ, Sam Perkins, James Worthy, Matt Doherty, and any NC. Then Louisville with Dr Dunkenstein and the Macrae Brothers, and Lancaster Gordon. Used to make my own brackets on my moms typewriter and stay up late filling everything in.

 

[GopherGod]

Kansas Jayhawks. Was a big Danny Manning fan and later the Roy Williams teams.